Hollywood to BT: "Block The Pirate Bay."

A coalition of Movie, Music and and publishing companies have formally requested BT block internet access to The Pirate Bay voluntarily, before they send the boys around.

The group are called BPI, and supported by the rest of the UK creative industries, they asked Britain’s largest ISP to voluntarily deny public access The Pirate Bay. The resistance would seem futile, since it'd probably be too easy for the studios to get a court order to get BT to do it. But regardless of that, we hope they say no.

Let's look at this, the most BT can do is an IP blockade. Just like what happened with the forced blockage of Newzbin, people can simply go into private browsing and create a fake IP address through a vast multitude of internet sources. Being honest, this seems to be just clutching at straws, the creative industries have to maintain itself as an industry, and as the subconcious economical value of creative content is reduced in the public agenda via piracy and what-not, the overwhelming cultural wealth of these products just don't seem that wealthy anymore. Sort of bitter-sweet but it's what the Doctor ordered.

So on that hand, it's easy to understand why the Creative industries have struck out; but this is one step towards IP blockades, which is one step towards privacy, which is one step towards tracing, which is one step towards anti-governmental thoughts being monitored (hello CIA).